Cop Car's Beat

Crepe Myrtle Time

                               
The crepe myrtles are in bloom, so thought that I would share a photo of ours.  There are actually three bushes in this photo, but they are neatly aligned (and I cropped the photo) so one really only sees the smallest of the three--the one in the foreground. 

Finally, I've finished sewing the rows of Hunky Husband's Afghan quilt and have been playing about with different arrangements of the rows. I am pondering not using the "fill-in" row that I had assembled from leftover odds and ends. It looks like leftover odds and ends (I needed to make the quilt 4-6 inches longer for HH--not a short fellow.) Now I am pondering making another fill-in row that is just two rows of 1/2-square triangle blocks in two fabrics, laid out to make slanted diamonds (such as I had done to fill in the needed height on the Ohio star block). Or, I could add a 2" border (I had planned to just bind this quilt), accepting that the quilt gets wider as well as getting longer. Hmmmm. This photo at least shows what the rows look like. I'm not sure which should be top or bottom, let alone in which order the rows should be arranged.

                                 

July 10, 2006 at 08:17 AM

Comments

Ooh, that crepe myrtle is beautiful and the quilt is looking good too!

Posted by: bogie | July 12, 2006 at 02:52 AM

Thanks, Sweetie. Your Grandma Hall always had crepe myrtle near the brick chimney (east side of house--between house and driveway) on 70th Street. She loved them, so, and had such a hard time getting them to thrive that she fretted a lot.

Posted by: Cop Car | July 12, 2006 at 07:04 AM

That crape myrtle looks lovely. I must admit that I hadn't heard of it but on Googling it I discovered that it is grown all over the world including the UK so the gnorance is mine.

Posted by: Adele | July 13, 2006 at 03:31 AM

                               
The crepe myrtles are in bloom, so thought that I would share a photo of ours.  There are actually three bushes in this photo, but they are neatly aligned (and I cropped the photo) so one really only sees the smallest of the three--the one in the foreground. 

Finally, I've finished sewing the rows of Hunky Husband's Afghan quilt and have been playing about with different arrangements of the rows. I am pondering not using the "fill-in" row that I had assembled from leftover odds and ends. It looks like leftover odds and ends (I needed to make the quilt 4-6 inches longer for HH--not a short fellow.) Now I am pondering making another fill-in row that is just two rows of 1/2-square triangle blocks in two fabrics, laid out to make slanted diamonds (such as I had done to fill in the needed height on the Ohio star block). Or, I could add a 2" border (I had planned to just bind this quilt), accepting that the quilt gets wider as well as getting longer. Hmmmm. This photo at least shows what the rows look like. I'm not sure which should be top or bottom, let alone in which order the rows should be arranged.

                                 

Vagaries

"13. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again."  (See I Almost Had a Life.)

That is the type of maintenance (formerly known as "brogand maintenance") that I may soon be forced to apply to my computer--except that it wouldn't help my software problem. It might make me feel better, though. So far, I have replaced the BIOS, replaced the registry, made numerous un-install/install cycles on a couple of pieces of software, and dusted the cobwebs out of the inside of my computer--to fix a problem that I have become convinced is caused by my having tried out an anti-spyware software package for a couple of weeks. (Well, I'm sure that I helped it along, somehow.) Although the inside of the computer case did need dusting, I was only inside it to learn what motherboard is installed--in order to assure that I was replacing the BIOS with the correct version. (Did you know that your motherboard has a "name"?) At any rate, nothing that I've done has made the slightest difference--except to my disposition.

And, lastly, the emoticon posted by Raggedy Cat, that I had failed to give in my last posting.

^_^

(=':'=)

(")_ (")

Awwww...that's cute!

"13. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again."  (See I Almost Had a Life.)

That is the type of maintenance (formerly known as "brogand maintenance") that I may soon be forced to apply to my computer--except that it wouldn't help my software problem. It might make me feel better, though. So far, I have replaced the BIOS, replaced the registry, made numerous un-install/install cycles on a couple of pieces of software, and dusted the cobwebs out of the inside of my computer--to fix a problem that I have become convinced is caused by my having tried out an anti-spyware software package for a couple of weeks. (Well, I'm sure that I helped it along, somehow.) Although the inside of the computer case did need dusting, I was only inside it to learn what motherboard is installed--in order to assure that I was replacing the BIOS with the correct version. (Did you know that your motherboard has a "name"?) At any rate, nothing that I've done has made the slightest difference--except to my disposition.

And, lastly, the emoticon posted by Raggedy Cat, that I had failed to give in my last posting.

^_^

(=':'=)

(")_ (")

Awwww...that's cute!

Around the blogosphere

Reading around the blogosphere, this morning, I found many blogs worth reading--including all of my old favorites. I list a few of them, below, in no particular order. Kenju posted a Workplace Vocabulary for 2006, which included:

"13. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again."

This is a maintenance method that I've not yet tried on my computer, since my problems are software issues--with, perhaps, a firmware issue or issues thrown in.

Chancy posted, Happy Fourth of July, and had previously posted a story that I highly recommend. See A Short Story As a "teaser",

"Octorel softly stroked the silky arms of the old wooden rocker .Over the years the chair arms had been worn marble smooth by all the scraggy,rough hands that had enjoyed it's comforting touch while rocking on the old porch. The raspy sound of back and forth-creak-back and forth-squeak soothed him as he reached back in memory to a sweltering July day almost 89 years ago."

Desiree cites a piece by Dawn Walton in the June 20, 2006, Globe and Mail, Battle erupts over Alberta plan to let pharmacists prescribe drugs. This is a concept that we in the USA might well consider.

Have a safe and sane 4th!

July 04, 2006 at 08:16 AM

Reading around the blogosphere, this morning, I found many blogs worth reading--including all of my old favorites. I list a few of them, below, in no particular order. Kenju posted a Workplace Vocabulary for 2006, which included:

"13. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again."

This is a maintenance method that I've not yet tried on my computer, since my problems are software issues--with, perhaps, a firmware issue or issues thrown in.

Chancy posted, Happy Fourth of July, and had previously posted a story that I highly recommend. See A Short Story As a "teaser",

"Octorel softly stroked the silky arms of the old wooden rocker .Over the years the chair arms had been worn marble smooth by all the scraggy,rough hands that had enjoyed it's comforting touch while rocking on the old porch. The raspy sound of back and forth-creak-back and forth-squeak soothed him as he reached back in memory to a sweltering July day almost 89 years ago."

Desiree cites a piece by Dawn Walton in the June 20, 2006, Globe and Mail, Battle erupts over Alberta plan to let pharmacists prescribe drugs. This is a concept that we in the USA might well consider.

Have a safe and sane 4th!

July 04, 2006 at 08:16 AM

Comments

[bogie]

Ooh, that crepe myrtle is beautiful and the quilt is looking good too!

[Cop Car]

Thanks, Sweetie. Your Grandma Hall always had crepe myrtle near the brick chimney (east side of house--between house and driveway) on 70th Street. She loved them, so, and had such a hard time getting them to thrive that she fretted a lot.

[Adele]

That crape myrtle looks lovely. I must admit that I hadn't heard of it but on Googling it I discovered that it is grown all over the world including the UK so the gnorance is mine.